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Hendrik Ludwig

3×3 · top 9.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2019 · 2019LUDW01

Hendrik Ludwig has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.54, set at Rhein-Neckar Winter 2024, puts him in the top 9.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 467th in Germany. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 11 competitions since June 2019, he has put 252 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 89% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 34.56 in June 2019 to 10.54, a 70% improvement. Hendrik has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 9.1% of 284,439 all-time
10.54
signature single · Rhein-Neckar Winter 2024
252
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 89% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingGermany
3×310.5412.15
top 9.1%467 / 4,109
2×23.105.58
top 15.4%548 / 2,875
Skewb6.5810.38
top 30.3%416 / 1,169
Pyraminx7.4610.44
top 31.7%746 / 1,987
3×3 one-handed26.8336.73
top 38.9%512 / 1,314
4×41:33.69
top 66.3%1,268 / 1,934
Clock21.78
early days — 3 solves449 / 634

Percentile against all competitors ever ranked in each event, a fairer measure than raw rank, because the pools differ by a factor of ten.

The line so far

Rhein-Neckar Open 2019: 34.56German Big Cube Open 2019: 22.53Rhein-Neckar Open 2022: 18.25German Nationals 2022: 16.61Rhein-Neckar Open 2023: 15.28Hessen Mini Open 2023: 17.74German Nationals 2023: 15.80Darmstadt Dodecahedron Days 2023: 11.25Rhein-Neckar Autumn 2023: 13.43Rubik's German Nationals 2024: 12.35Rhein-Neckar Winter 2024: 10.5410.5434.5622 Jun 201914 Dec 2024

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

Competitions

Reading this page: a single is one solve's time · an average is the middle three of five solves, best and worst discarded · a PB is a personal best · a DNF (did not finish) is an attempt with no valid result: a popped piece, an unsolved face, an over-limit memorisation · top X% compares against everyone ever ranked in that event, which is fairer than raw rank because event pools differ tenfold.

The circuit

The people whose scorecards keep turning up next to his.

Next targets

  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.54 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.10 away.

Targets move as he improves.